The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-01
ALL KINDS OF
JOB WORK
Observers Observations.
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Observers Observations.
The hay crop is very short and good
rain is badly needed.
Charley Pepper is at work for George
Wellington Lee for the season.
The sheep BARRIERS have ground up their
shears preparatory to business.
The wheat crop is weaker in the knees
than we have known it for years.
Tom Graham has just returned from Indi-
ana, where he bought some horses.
Bean planters are preparing their ground
and a good acreage will be planted.
Apples are thick and fast and the crop, il
nothing happens will be good one.
Work on the highways is now in order
and the roads are kept in fine condition.
Alb. Grout is building a new addition to
his barn. Rus. Mentor is chief mechanic.
Seward Payne is back from Kalamazoo
where he has been at work for Mr.. Oliver
That big frost that was to take place last
Thursday night failed to put in an appear
ance.
DR.. Reed only had ten fits one day last
week, and it was not much of a day for fits
either
Richard Underwood is ceiling the inside
of his house and thinks it much better than
plaster.
Mrs. Ambrose Sherburne, who went to
Aberdeen, Dakota, some four years ago, is
back on a visit.
Gene Salisbury came near getting his
shoulder broken the other day by the hind
fists of a horse.
The poor, old farmer is putting in big
time nowadays, cultivating his corn and
taking advantage of the weeds.
We have been writing horse for the past
few weeks, which is one reason why we
have not been making ourself known.
Luther w. Whitbeck draws the reins over
fast PAGER and, from what we learn, we
Judge he is getting to be quite sport
Elder Boynton was tying up pair the
other day, and when he asked the groom his
occupation, he replied getting married"
Miss Effie Galligan and her cousin, George
Galligan. have Just returned from a weeks
visit at kalamazoo, among relatives and
friends.
What is the use of yellows commissioner
now, as long as the trees of all outside OF
large dealers have been slashed to the earth
long ago!
The Long boys have re sided and reshin-
gled their farm barn, besides doing lots of
repairs to fences, etc, which makes things
look like business.
Sells circus will be down at Kalamazoo on
the Sth of this month, and the probabilities
are that it will be no SELL notwithstanding ii
is advertised as such.
We held the ticker on Thomas Welch's
Lucy Wilkes down at kalamazoo the other
day, and she trotted three straight heats in
2:S51l 2:34l and 2:3l15.
Ben Roberts, brother of our Lew, is now
on the police force at Parsons, Kansas, where
he now resides. Ben tells us he has made
some eighteen arrests within the last thirty
days.
That old mare and COW are occupying the
highways as usual. 1t is very pleasant to
have to drive around them to avoid being
kicked or snagged in the old cows rope or
chain.
Paw Paw has more wool buyers than any
town in the county and pays the best price,
ranging from twenty-five to thirty cents per
pound. All wool that comes in is gobbled
up IN short order
The Courier advocates two cents mile
fare on all railroads. This would save the
traveller about four cents mile on the Paw
Paw road, which would be quite an item,
providing he had to travel over it for dis
lance of 10000 miles.
They have Sunday school every Sunday at
the Lee school house. They say Ira Flanders
has the best class, consisting of Lew Sails
bury and Well. Lee. Ira thinks that with
good luck, he will have them fully prepared
for the ministry again snow flies.
Will Lewey of Kalamazoo, a practical
driver and horse trainer, will handle several
good horses on our track, providing the
stalls can be put in shape. He is the gentle
man who handled Jim Lane last season and
fully understands his business. AS a care
taker, he stands second to none. So fix up
the stalls.
Since his arrival in the United States,
Henry Young, our imported friend has
started up the cat business on small scale
Last week, his stock of felines was increased
by about dozen little night marauders. AS
soon as Henry got his lion eye on them, he
converted them into English, or Queen Vic
toria cats, which he did by removing their
little narratives. This proved 10 be too
severe for the little waulers, and they all
passed gently away within an hour after the
surgical operation was performed, which
caused our friend to mourn deeply. He has
carried heavy heart in his bosom ever
since and refuses to be comforted, but says
he will try again.